Washington & Jefferson retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Pittsburgh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington & Jefferson came in 21 days into reign #57, which began with a win over Carnegie Mellon, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Washington & Jefferson went on to defend it 4 more times before Duquesne took it on October 13, 1928, 364 days after the reign began.
For Pittsburgh this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pittsburgh leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Pittsburgh visited Washington & Jefferson on November 5, 1927, in a week 8 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Washington & Jefferson retained the belt as the holder.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 15528) · This game in the downloadable dataset